Ashenheim, Lewis ♂

Education

M.D. 6.8.1839 by examination.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1815 son of Jacob Ashenheim, jeweller, Edinburgh and Malky Aaron.

Career

Studied Edinburgh University - medical student 1834-1837. L.R.C.S.E. 1840.

Said to be the first Jew to qualify in medicine in Scotland.

Practised Kingston, Jamaica, where he had descendants. [Doctor]

Death

Alive until at least 1853.

Sources

• Rec. Scot. Ch. Hist. Soc. 3 1929 p204
• St. A.U. Correspondence files of the Keeper of Muniments, University of St Andrews J.B.S./A. Levy
• do. June 1982/Kenneth Collins
• Abel Phillips, Hist. of the origins of the first Jewish community in Scotland